Restoration Projects--Free boat WBRF update

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Please see our web site for new free boats to be adopted for restoration. WBRF (http://woodenboatrescue.org)
-- 29' Crosby Cat
-- 15' Junior Sloop one design (special project to restore boat and to revive the one design as this is the last one.)
-- 15 Lyman runabout
-- 26' Sindey Davies
-- 22' Chris Craft Sea Skiff
-- 25' Jersey Sea Skiff
-- 20 something foot Quincy Adams (true) (Not posted yet, but coming soon)
-- A few new Chris Crafts
-- 34 Owens 1955

In addition, we now have a fellow in the Great Lakes area and a fellow in the UK that will be doing the WBRF thing.

Wooden Boat Restoration Workshops/classes look to be coming together. These will be in Bridgeport, CT and will meet once a month and be taught by well know shipwrights. Please see the project boat most likely to be the first project.

Cheers, Bruce

[outofthenorm]

Great program Bruce. On your home page there are lines for an old cutter. Can you tell me what she is and where the lines came from? - Norm

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Glad you like her. She seems to attract a lot of attention. She is a design (quote un quote) of mine. This is my dream boat. She is basically a shortened, deepened, yachtified Gloucester Sloop-Boat taken off lines of the "Vesta" a Bishop Design from the 1890s. I increasaed her depth a bit to allow for standing room and a flush deck in areas without the tunck cabin. I shortened her to about 44 ft--although the pix on the website do not reflect that---I hope to someday build her. Another person fell in love with her and may have her built in three years by a fellow in Romania (40 ft). There are no building plans for her yet, although a very good architect has offered to do them for about $5000. She is a true workboat and the building will be of that style and finish. Ross Gannon of Gannon and Benjamin has seen the plans and would love a go at building her.

There are more pix on the WBFR website under articles and click the link under "Pagan" --Pictures and stuff.

Great reading about the Gloucester Sloop-Boat can be found in WB# 152.

My idea is to capture a bit of the New England history of workboats and build a new boat the reflects the evolution of a boat to her environment---like the Bristol Channel Pilot Cutters in the UK. Pride in American boats of the past is really only seen for Yachts. Accept the Freindship Sloop-Boat and the Skipjck, the Ameriican workboat is almost gone---we could take a lesson from the English and French; their pride in their past workboats have saved many boats from being cut up.

There are only two Gloucester Sloop-Boats left and both are small examples (one is the Great Republic of Blackburn fame, at the Cape Ann Hist Mus.. The other I owned for a short time and is now owned by Wade Smith head shipwright of John Gardner Boatshop at Mystic Seaport CT. There are pictures of Wade's boat on the WBRF listings of "Boats for Sale."

Cheers, Bruce

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Here is an image---I hope I did this right.

http://www.woodenboatrescue.org/Gloucester-Sloop-Boat.htm

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no--did not come through so here's the link
Gloucester Sloop-Boat at WBRF (http://www.woodenboatrescue.org/Gloucester-Sloop-Boat.htm)

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oh .....the final plan has higher freeboard and the small trunk cabin --- unlike the upper color diagram with low board, and lower diagram with a full yacht-type cabin.

cheers, Bruce

[Wild Dingo]

Gidday there Bruce what a fine looking design Pagan is! :cool:

http://www.woodenboatrescue.org/pagan3a-estimates.jpg

I know Derek Ellard of Scruffie Marine designs along similar lines although presently smaller versions of a similar style... hes working on a smaller {37ft} version than yours at present which he hopes to have done sometime in the next millenium :D bit of a perfektionist is Derek which is a good thing when designing boats Id say... his intent is to build one and sail it in a Sydney to Hobart race! :cool:

http://www.woodenboatrescue.org/pagen%20plans-estimates.jpg

Well done with it all mate!

ooooooohhhhhhh geeeeeeezzzzzzzzz! I just wandered through your websites listings of free boats shouldnt have done that!!! :( My all time favorite drool boat is listed... how the blazes can ANYONE let a Murray Peterson Coaster Schooner get to that point??? HOW!!! GAWD I HATE SEEIN THAT SORTA THING!! really tears my heart out to see... hey Bruce you havent heard of any mob like yours downunder have you?

[ 04-23-2005, 11:24 AM: Message edited by: Wild Dingo ]

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I would like to have someone doing the same thing down there---want to be the first rep?

The Murry Peterson is being cut up next month---yoiu will see it in some bar in NY or... ;_(

cheers